ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20282, 26 August 1937, Page 7

ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.

LITTLE GIRL KILLED CAR STRIKES A POST (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIHI, Wednesday Albert George Barnett, of Grey Lynn, an employee of the Auckland City Council at the Zoo, was proceeding to Waihi yesterday morning with his wife and daughter Joyce; also in the car were Mrs Eunice Merry, widow of the late Mr Malcolm Merry, of Waihi, and her two daughters, Joan (12) and Malsome (4). The car skidded on the planking of a bridge about a mile on the Waihi side of Walkino, and in an endeavour to prevent the vehicle going over into the river, Mr Barnett applied the footbrake, causing the car to collide broadside on with a telegraph pole, with the result that Mrs Merry is suffering a fractured arm and the little girl a broken nose. The other occupants escaped Injury. Immediately after receiving medical attention by Dr. R. L. Iletherington, at Waihi, Mrs Merry and her daughter Malsome proceeded by service car lo the Auckland Hospital, and the local police received information last evening that the child had died in the hospital.

A FARMER VICTIM PALMERSTON N., Wednesday. ■Mr John Thomas, a farmer, of Bunnythorpe, was killed when his car crashed throdgh the approach to a bridge across the Mangaone Stream, and somersaulted 25 feet into the stream, in which the water is 2ft, deep. Mr Thomas is survived by a widow and a family of three sons and four daughters. PINNED UNDER LORRY KAITAIA, Wednesday. A Dalmatian, Mr. Jakov Bora, single (64), died in the Kaitaia Hospital on Sunday. Deceased was riding in the cab of a truck proceeding from Kaitaia along the Pukepopo Road. When rounding a corner near the Walnut Junction the truck left the road; and, Mr. Bora was thrown out of the cab and was pinned underneath the capsized vehicle. I | I 1